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ISRO Puts India’s First Geo Imaging Satellite In Orbit, PM Modi Hails EOS-05 Launch Aboard GSLV-F17
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India to have its own space station by 2035, says ISRO chairman
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Isro will not make any launch vehicle, all tech to be handed to private sector
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles as US-South Korea drills near end
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Orbitworks ships UAE-built Altair-1 to US ahead of October launch
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Open Geospatial Consortium

Monday, December 5th, 2016

OGC Invites Participation in Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for participation in its newly established Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group (EM Spectrum DWG). This group will review requirements for an international open standard data model and derived encoding(s) for...

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016

OGC Invites You to its Testbed 12 Demonstration and Exposition

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is inviting members and the public to attend the OGC Testbed 12 demonstration and exposition of the technology developed during its latest Interoperability Program initiative on 29 November 2016 at the USGS...

Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

OGC Requests Comments on Proposed Quality of Service and Experience DWG

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests comments on the charter for a proposed Quality of Service and Experience (QoSE) Domain Working Group (DWG). Spatial data now plays a critical role in the smooth functioning of contemporary society....

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

OGC Approves Standard for Use in the Modeling and Simulation World

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved CDB as an OGC standard. The OGC CDB standard is based on and derived from an industry developed and maintained specification for the modeling and simulation community. The CDB...

Thursday, September 15th, 2016

Birds of a Feather in Taiwan: GSDI 15 & OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meeting

The proverb “birds of a feather flock together" will ring true later this year when the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Technical and Planning (T&P) Committee Meeting and 15th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure World Conference (GSDI 15) will...

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

OGC Announces Standard for Concise Description of Earth Coordinate Reference Systems

May 6, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC Well-known Text (WKT) Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework White Paper Announced

Feb.25, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper. This essential document for Smart City systems planning is available free at